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Les représentations de la bataille de La Nouvelle-Orléans
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(Il)lisibilité du mélodrame américain au xixe siècle : The Gladiator (1831) de Robert Montgomery Bird et Jack Cade (1841) de Robert Conrad
Published 2020-07-01“…Robert Montgomery Bird’s The Gladiator (1831) and Robert Conrad’s Jack Cade (1841)—two plays that were awarded the Edwin Forrest Prize—are no exception and champion a democratic and patriarchal ethos that echoes the political ideal fostered by Andrew Jackson. Yet the conflicting temporalities at work in both plays problematize the teleological impulse that informs their revisiting of European history and undermine the possibility to venture a coherent typological interpretation of them.…”
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“A More Permanent Familiarity”: Value and the Paternal Image on United States Currency
Published 2019-07-01“…When in April 2016, the United States Department of the Treasury officially announced the redesign of the $20 bill, the plan provided that the portrait of an “exemplary American woman” would replace Andrew Jackson’s. This article explores whether such a portrait would make any substantive difference to women’s marginalization in public life. …”
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Tocqueville y el populismo
Published 2019-01-01“…Este trabajo analiza la perspectiva de Alexis de Tocqueville sobre el populismo en dos momentos y lugares específicos: su viaje a América a principios de la década de 1830 —el cual coincidió con la presidencia de Andrew Jackson— y la revolución de 1848 en Francia —que el autor recuenta en sus Souvenirs—. …”
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